ENGLISH So I started off March with a weekend trip to Strasbourg, a French city in the region of Alsace that is close to Germany 😀 . And here is the story of that trip. I took a direct return flight with Air France on this trip. As I said back then, Air France’s Amsterdam-Strasbourg…
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#2263 – 2019 Spring Trip to SE Asia (The Destinations)
ENGLISH As I shared in December, at the time I had already had travelling plans through the first half of 2019. Some of these plans actually formed two big trips in Spring this year. The first one is coming quite soon, and I have decided to still go on this trip. And so it is…
#2259 – 2018 Year End Trip (Part VIII: Air France/KLM JFK-CDG-AMS in Economy)
ENGLISH Posts in the 2018 Year End Trip series: 1. Introduction 2. Part I: Getting to Miami 3. Part II: Miami 4. Part III: Miami Beach 5. Part IV: Getting to Austin 6. Part V: Austin 7. Part VI: Getting to New York 8. Part VII: New York 9. Part VIII: Back to Europe To…
#2257 – A Weekend Story
ENGLISH As my Instagram (@azilko) followers have known, I went on a weekend trip, again, this weekend! I know, I know, I still haven’t even shared the stories from the previous two weekend trips to Frankfurt and Hamburg, and now I have already gone on another one 🙈! (Though this is partially because my 2018…
#2248 – The End of the Airbus A380
ENGLISH Yesterday, Airbus officially announced that they had decided to stop the production of the Airbus A380, the largest passenger airplane in the world, from 2021. Only seventeen more A380s will be manufactured until then, fourteen for Emirates and three for ANA. To be honest, this is actually not surprising. For so long, it has…
#2222 – The 2018 Year-End Trip (The Destinations)
ENGLISH Since I moved to the Netherlands in 2010, I have had a streak of going on a trip at the end of a year. Well, 2011 being an exception, of course, haha; but other than that year, I went to Italy in 2010, France and Italy in 2012, England in 2013, India in 2014, USA (Boston and New York) and…
#2221 – A Delayed Flight Story
ENGLISH So I went on a weekend trip to Barcelona at the end of November, and for this trip I took the following routing: I took KLM’s direct Amsterdam-Barcelona late afternoon flight to Barcelona; and the Joon/Air France Barcelona-Paris-Amsterdam combo to get back to Amsterdam with a scheduled 1 hour and 20 minutes of transfer time in…
#2217 – Staying Platinum
ENGLISH Last year, I qualified for the Platinum status on Flying Blue, Air France/KLM’s frequent flyer programme, for the first time ever. Right after my KLM flight KL964 from Newcastle to Amsterdam, which sealed my Platinum deal, was registered, I was able to start enjoying the Platinum benefit (namely, assigning myself a complimentary Economy Comfort…
